"There are no answers. That’s the answer. There ain’t any answer. There ain’t going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer." (Gertrude Stein)

Monday, May 01, 2006

Dadisms

Because we can--because he's online maybe once a year, and because, let's face it, face-to-face parenting with children & teens was not his strong suit--here are some favorite paternal sayings. Feel free to add your own."You must have done something wrong today, you look guilty.""Now you've wrecked it.""Did you learn anything?""There's beads on the road!" (From the "driving in the rain" speech)"You just didn't think.""Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."

hm. can't do this one. it would 1) require too many cursewords and 2) depress the hell out of me and everyone who reads.

But I'll do a few Momisms (these require cursewords as well, but were never directed at children):1. Christ in a side car.2. Fuck me running (backwards).3. I'm gonna bang your heads together, so help me.

I will say we have to give Dad some credit, now that he's channeling Mom, he's a great dad to his adult children.I do, however, wonder...what if he had actually had problem children to deal with??? We were pretty damn good kids, no drug problems, no legal problems, etc.

How could I possibly forget that one? And I do think he's grown tremendously in the past several years. I'm sorry it took this trauma for it to happen, but my recent foray into Buddhism suggests that's how we learn. Darnit.